Subject: New Parking Lot "L" open 11-17-05
Submitter: Krista Young, Communications and Parking Manager, Public Safety

Message: The new parking lot in the SE corner of campus at the intersection of 25th Ave. S. and Butler Pl. will be open and available for use at 7 a.m. on Thursday, November 17th. Smaller aspects of the project (such as signs and lights) will still be under construction and will be finished as soon as possible.

The new lot is called "Lot L." Right now, any vehicle with a Fac/Staff, WEC/Grad, or Commuter permit may park in the lot. The lot will be posted with more detailed parking information once its signs are finished. For questions, please contact Krista Young at x1711 or John Pack at x1644.

Subject: Instructions for On-Line Student Feedback
Submitter: Theresa L Martin, Administrative Assistant, Center for Teaching and Learning

Message: Instructions for On-Line Student Feedback on Courses Augsburg College Fall 2005

Information Required for Faculty:

Beginning Friday November 18, 2005 students in each of your courses will receive an email asking them to complete the on-line course form approved by the faculty in October 2005. There will be no formal Provost's office paper evaluation this year. You do not need to do anything to be a part of this project÷ all courses are included automatically (with a few exceptions.) These instructions are very important with respect to obtaining information that is helpful to faculty and the College.

The e-mails asking students to participate are sent directly to each student registered for your courses. There is one survey per course. A student can log on any time during the 3 week window (ending Friday December 9) and complete the survey. A student can save his or her progress if interrupted, but once the student submits the survey for a course it is final.

Students will receive up to 2 additional reminders during the 3 week window if they have not filled out the survey.

Surveys are confidential; no summary results go to faculty or administration until after grades are submitted in January.

What faculty should do:

1. Please tell students that they will receive an email that says "Augsburg College Course Evaluation" in subject line. They should not delete it; it is legitimate.

2. Please encourage students to complete the surveys as a contribution to our effectiveness at Augsburg. Your willingness to see this information as helpful goes a long way in student motivation. Any concerns about the current College policy should not be directed to students. Ethically, such concerns should be addressed to this committee and other formal groups.

3. The College policy is that participation is voluntary by students, but strongly encouraged. Students have an opportunity to take it on their own time and in private, so it would not be appropriate to bring a class to a lab and have them complete the form together.

Reminders:
- Faculty will not see individual students' results; responses are confidential unless a student chooses to disclose his or her identity in the open ended comments.
- Once the 3 week window is closed, students cannot fill out the survey.
- This survey is only one tool for understanding. Please use other forms, handouts or discussions for collecting specific information (what about the texts? Labs? etc.) in your classes as needed. A single end of the term form only does some things and not others. CTL is happy to help.
- The customized section of the Augsburg Form will be available in spring term.
- You will receive your results in mid January after grades are in÷they will go directly to you, your chair and the Provost in a timely way.

If you have questions, please contact Diane Pike x 1228 pike@augsburg.edu or Scott Krajewski x 1471. krajews@augsburg.edu. We will do everything we can to help. Please keep in mind that this is the first time we are doing the entire community so your patience and help in making this work is important.
Thank you!

Subject: Syllabus Workshop CANCELLED
Submitter: Theresa L Martin, Administrative Assistant, Center for Teaching and Learning

Message: The Syllabus Workshop scheduled for today, Thursday, November 17 has been cancelled. The workshop will be rescheduled at a later date. Watch the Daily A-mail for further notices.

Subject: GET 'ER DONE Registration Nights with TRIO/SSS
Submitter: Olee Amata, Secretary, Student Support Services

Message: NEW this year for TRIO Students: No lines! TRIO and Registrar staff available for scheduling and on-line registration assistance! Saved spots in entry-level skills classes! And pizza too! On the evening of your open web registration, students in the TRIO/SSS program come with your list of spring classes to SCI 116 and GET ÎER DONE.

Sophomores Friday, Nov. 18
Freshmen Tuesday, Nov. 22

4:00-4:30 double-check for holds, course override needs, scheduling questions, reserve a spot in entry-level skills class
4:30-5:00 early bird dinner
5:00- get on-line and register for spring semester classes

Subject: Peace with Justice Series features visual artist
Submitter: Daniel Jorgensen, , President's Office

Message: Cara Hochhalter, a visual artist and theologian who has published works in Sojourner's magazine as well as exhibited her work in the Twin Cities area, will be the featured presenter at the next Peace with Justice Forum on November 20 at Central Lutheran Church and Prince of Peace Lutheran Church in Burnsville.

The forum will be from 12:30-2 p.m. at Central, located at 3rd Ave and 12th St, next to the Minneapolis Convention Center, and from 3:30 - 5 p.m. at Prince of Peace, 13901 Fairview Drive, Burnsville. Lunch is available for $6 at Central, and refreshments (free will offering) will be served at Prince of Peace.

Hochhalter will lead a special discussion titled "Prophetic Art: Calling on Creativity to Promote Justice" by sharing her watercolors and linocut prints specifically on the themes of peace/war and justice. She also will share information about other prophetic artists, such as Picasso, Goya and Ben Shahn and will explore how our creativity can be used to both deal with the tragedy of war and injustice as well as point towards creative solutions to these social problems.

This forum series is sponsored by the ELCA Minneapolis and Saint Paul Area Synods Peace with Justice Committee. Both synods and Central are Augsburg partners in the Faith in the City initiative.

Subject: Great American Smokeout- TODAY!
Submitter: Dianne Detloff, Administrative Assistant, Counseling & Health Promotion

Message: Will today be the day you decide to quit smoking? There's a lot of support and encouragement available because today is the annual Great American Smokeout. Counseling and Health Promotion will be tabling in Christensen Center from 11:30 - 1 p.m. and will have resources available if you are thinking about or have decided to quit smoking. It's time and today just might be the day to put down that cigarette for good! Questions, call CCHP x1707.

Subject: The United Way/ Community Solutions Fund Campaign
Submitter: Michele R Kidwell, Enrollment Assistant, Enrollment Management

Message:

Once again, it's that time of year when we, as a community, participate in our annual United Way/ Community Solutions Fund campaign. This year, in addition to monetary contributions, there will be several opportunities to participate with other types of gifts. If you aren't able to contribute financially, I encourage you to participate in one (or more!) of these other wonderful opportunities.

Week #1: (November 14th through November 18th)
Book Drive
Clean off those book shelves and bring all those books you wonât read again to the information desk in Christensen Center. Books collected will be donated to various charities that support children, battered womenâs shelters, and state prison programs.

Weeks #2- #3: (November 21st through December 2nd)
Mitten, Hat and Scarf Tree
Bring in new and gently used winter accessories and decorate the tree by the information desk in Christen Center. All collected items will be donated to area clothes closets and homeless shelters.

Week #4: (December 5th through December 9th)
Toy Drive
Bring new, unwrapped toys and age appropriate gifts for teens to the information desk in Christensen Center. All collected items will be donated to Toys for Tots.

Throughout the campaign
Project Angel Tree
If your department would be interested in combining your efforts and ãadoptingä children as part of the Project Angel Tree program, contact Michele Kidwell (kidwell@augsburg.edu). Project Angel Tree is an organization that collects and distributes gifts to children of incarcerated inmates in area prisons.

Financial Contributions
You can complete your enrollment form for the Untied Way and/or the Community Solutions Fund at anytime and drop in the campus mail (CB 143) or drop it by Christensen Center 100C.

Thanks!

Subject: Finalists Selected by Presidential Search Committe
Submitter: Daniel Jorgensen, , President's Office

Message: November 17, 2005


MEMORANDUM

TO: Members of the Augsburg College Community

FROM: H. Theodore Grindal, Chair, Presidential Search Committee

SUBJECT: Search Update


I am writing to provide another update on the search for the next president of Augsburg College. The search committee met most recently on Monday, November 14, and selected seven candidates who are being invited to participate in confidential preliminary interviews with the search committee early next month. These candidates were selected on the basis of reference calls made by the committee, and were chosen from a larger number of individuals whose background and experience seemed especially consistent with the presidential qualities and qualifications established for the search. On completion of preliminary interviews, the committee will select candidates who will be invited to participate in more extensive on-campus interviews with a broad range of Augsburg's constituents early next semester. You will all be encouraged to participate in this final phase of the interview process.

The committee is very pleased with the quality of the semi-finalist candidates. If you have any questions, please direct them to me (htgrindal@locklaw.com), or Dr. Thomas Courtice, our consultant (phone: 614-405-9209; e-mail: tom.courtice@academic-search.org).

Thank you again for your interest and support.

Subject: Augsburg History Society Movie Night--TONIGHT
Submitter: Michael Lansing, Assistant Professor, History

Message: Join the Augsburg History Society TONIGHT for it's second movie night of the year!

Tonight at 6:30 p.m. in the 1st Floor Auditorium of Science Hall, we'll be enjoying pizza and pop and watching the "The Motorcycle Diaries" (2004). Don Gustafson, currently teaching his famous Che Guevera history seminar, will be joining us to lead a discussion after the movie.

Hope to see you there!

Subject: Thanksgiving and the Writing Lab
Submitter: Kathryn Swanson, Professor, English

Message: Please note that Writing Lab tutors will celebrate Thanksgiving and will not be tutoring on Wednesday, Nov. 23, or on Thanksgiving Day. They will, however, work the normally scheduled hours on Sunday, Nov. 27, and regularly scheduled hours through Wednesday, December 14.

Subject: Staff and Faculty November Payday Change
Submitter: Linda M. Vlieger, Payroll / HRIS Coordinator, Human Resources

Message: Thanksgiving and the day after Thanksgiving are official College holidays. The payday which would normally occur on November 25 for biweekly staff, administrative staff, and faculty will be moved to November 23 to avoid conflict with the the holiday closure.

We will distribute checks in the normal manner. If you normally pick up your check in HR on payday, please do so by 3 p.m. -- any checks that have not been picked up by 3 p.m. will be mailed.

Questions about this payday rescheduling may be directed to Linda at ext. 1216 or Brad at ext. 1052.

We wish you a happy and safe long holiday weekend.

Subject: All-Staff Reception Today!
Submitter: Dianne Detloff, Administrative Assistant, Counseling & Health Promotion

Message: Staff Senate invites all staff to stop in for pie, caramel apples, hot cider and of course good conversation and good company at our fall get together this afternoon from 3 - 4:30 p.m. in the Century Room (lower level of Christensen). A virtual tour of the SiMelby capital campaign project will be running throughout the gathering. Hope you can join us.

Subject: "Vocation and Social Change" - 11/22
Submitter: Cindy G Peterson, Director, American Indian Student Services

Message: While on our trip to Namibia and South Africa this summer we met an amazing young woman from the US who moved to Cape Town to address the HIV/AIDS situation in South Africa. For the past year and a half Tamara Aeschliman has been running a program she designed to focus on socio-economic development for teenage mothers in Khayelitsha. She has been involved in peace building, poverty alleviation and environmental issues in Mexico and Central America and has worked with students across the US on how to bring environmental consciousness and action to their campuses and communities.

Tamara will be on campus on Tues. 11/22. She will speak in chapel at 11:20. She will speak on Vocation and Social Change in the Marshall Room from 1:30-3 p.m.

Her message is a call to consciousness and action. She is inspirational and motivating. I am so pleased to bring her to campus. Please join us for an uplifting time!
Cindy

Subject: William Kent Krueger to visit campus!
Submitter: Kathryn Swanson, Professor, English

Message: Award-winning novelist William Kent Krueger will visit Professor Swanson's English 225 class on Tuesday, Nov. 22. You are invited to join the students for a conversation with the creator of Cork O'Connor who appeared first in "Iron Lake." Come to Sci 212 at 1:30 next Tuesday.

Subject: Startling New Research Finding
Submitter: Jay K Phinney, Grants Administration & Institutional Research, Academic and Student Affairs

Message: A recent study commissioned by the Faculty/Staff "Access to Excellence" Campaign Committee has found that employees who donate to the College:

--are admired by their peers and pets;
--have high levels of self-esteem;
--leave good impressions due to their exceptional intelligence;
--lead positive, caring, happy, and productive lives.

Just a coincidence? Unlikely.

Please give, enjoy the benefits of giving, and make your peers and pets proud!

Subject: Come see Freud and Lewis! Nov 19, 7 p.m.
Submitter: Hannah G Glusenkamp, Student

Message: What place do Freud and Lewis's views hold for us today?

Please join the Augsburg community for a brilliant performance, consisting of four vignettes produced by the first-year honors students! They will be delving into issues such as sex, death, and the meaning of life. Each vignette offers a unique and at times, humorous, glimpse into the human predicament as seen through the eyes of C.S. Lewis and Sigmund Freud.

Saturday, November 19, 7 p.m., Sateren Auditorium

Admission is free to the public and a short reception will follow the performance.

Subject: Augsburg History Society Field Trip--Sat, Nov. 19
Submitter: Michael Lansing, Assistant Professor, History

Message: Join the Augsburg History Society for it's fall field trip

At 1:30 p.m., on Saturday afternoon, Nov 19, we'll be meeting at the Mill City Museum on the Minneapolis riverfront. After touring the museum, we'll be joined by Augsburg's very own Bill Wittenbreer for a tour of the St. Anthony Falls area. Before our tour ends at 4:30 p.m., Bill will also share his expertise on late nineteenth-century Minnesota landscape painters by showing us a few paintings of the Falls area.

Student government has generously agreed to purchase ten student museum admissions (normally $6 each). To get one of these free admissions (first come, first serve), email Michael Lansing at lansing@augsburg.edu.

Hope to see you there!

Subject: "The Zoo Story" to perform this weekend
Submitter: Kyle A Loven, Student

Message: "The Zoo Story"
By Edward Albee
Directed by Kyle Loven

Friday, November 18- 8 p.m.
Saturday, November 19- 8 p.m.
Sunday, November 20- 2 p.m.

Admission is free and seating is on a first-come basis. Performances take place in the Film Studio Theater in Foss.

Two men. One chance encounter. "The Zoo Story" is the biting tale of a park bench and the animals that will do anything to make it their own. Through sharp dialogue and savage characters, Edward Albee illuminates the feeling of alienation that connects us all.

Subject: Auggie Math Minds in NCS/MAA Team Contest
Submitter: Rebekah N Dupont, Associate Professor, Department Chair, Mathematics

Message: The North Central Section of the Mathematical Association of America held its annual team contest on Saturday, November 12. Six of our finest beautiful minds participated this year: Evan Fuhs, Lava KC, Missy Larson, Cory Nathe, Binh Nguyen, and Chrissy Piram.

Subject: Blake Boursaw at AMATYC
Submitter: Rebekah N Dupont, Associate Professor, Department Chair, Mathematics

Message: In support of an ongoing interest in curriculum and instruction in courses below calculus, Blake Boursaw attended the annual meeting of the American Mathematics Association of Two-Year Colleges in San Diego from November 10-13.

Subject: Volunteer for the Hope Chest!
Submitter: Allison E Browne, Student

Message: Volunteers needed to assist in Hope Has No Boundaries holiday shopping extravaganza at Eden Prairie Mall November 18-19, for various shifts between the hours of 10:00am-9:00pm. Hope Chest assits those impacted by Breast Cancer in the Twin Cities metro area, particularly those in need of financial assistance.

The Hope Chest for Breast Cancer provides support to those touched by breast cancer through the sale of donated, very upscale furniture, accessories and designer clothing, utilizing a combination of company-owned and franchised Hope Chest Retail Stores.

Volunteers are needed to assist shoppers by greeting
attendees, assisting with check-out, and helping stock merchandise. Refreshments and a breakout room are available, and you can shop before, during and after. Dress is casual.

For more information or to volunteer, please call Allison at 612-804-6688. Thank you!

Subject: Free Holiday Ballet!
Submitter: Ross Murray, Campus Ministry Associate; Tutoring Services Coordinator, Campus Ministry and Academic Enrichment

Message: I have received the offering of free theatre tickets...well, actually ballet tickets. Here's the scoop. Amahl and the Night Visitors is being performed by the James Sewell Ballet at the State Theatre on November 26 and 27. For more information, visit, www.jsballet.org.

If you would like to join me on Sunday, November 27th at 7:30 at the State Theatre on Hennepin Ave, please respond to me by noon on Friday. I'll then request however many tickets we think we will need.

Contact me at x1151, x1445, or murray@augsburg.edu.

Subject: Free rent!!
Submitter: Colby J Smith, Student

Message: *FREE RENT!!*
- 2 BR Apt. within walking distance of Augsburg's campus
- Rent-FREE for live-in PCA -- Assist with daily living skills for male quadriplegic student
- Live-In PCA may also earn income for providing assistance (possibly $10/hour)
- Respite PCAs (personal-care attendants) will be available
- Love of comedy and sports a plus...!
- For more information or to express interest please contact:
* smithc4@augsburg.edu *
952-942-5878 and ask for Colby